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@rainywitchprince if you just mean the pictures then

Here is the full illustration.

Here is a close up of Sasuke's picture.

Sasuke is wearing (even according to the artist) Onna-men mask (woman mask). Sasuke is also the only one wearing a kimono showing neckline, you usually see these ones with meiko or oiran.

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The motivation behind it. Sasuke tried to kill Sakura because she tried to kill him first, for him it was self-defense, for her it was following Konoha orders of disposing of Sasuke because he's now a "traitor". It doesn't go deeper than that for either of them.

As for Naruto, it gets much more complicated. Sasuke is on a quest to kill Itachi for murdering their clan and Naruto gets in the way of that goal. As it's stated in the manga, he's able to reach Sasuke's heart and change his goal

We also see this when Sasuke jumps to save Naruto from Haku's attack not caring he was going to die, effectively giving up on his goal to avenge his clan for Naruto

So when Itachi comes back, re-traumatizes Sasuke and tells him he lacks hatred, Sasuke starts to feel insecure about Naruto, who he once protected with his life, becoming stronger than him. To Sasuke, this feels like he's being left behind so he takes it as a signal he must break all bonds he has in Konoha that stop him from his goal of killing his brother and become stronger to achieve said goal.

So Sasuke leaves Konoha and breaks very easily his bonds with Sakura and Kakashi, but Naruto is an entirely different matter. Sasuke knows in order to become strong enough to kill Itachi he needs to kill his closest bond to awaken the mangekyo sharingan and that bond is Naruto.

Naruto affects Sasuke so much he even triggers Sasuke's third tomoe when he tells him how he's his closest bond too. This shared loneliness of theirs that connects them, makes it easy for Sasuke to empathize with Naruto and viceversa. They created this deep bond that's much harder to break than Sasuke had anticipated.

But he just can never bring himself to actually kill Naruto because he loves him so much he even defies his brother's orders of killing him. Sasuke swears to himself he will find a way to kill Itachi that doesn't involve killing Naruto, because he can't bear to lose him too.

But after Itachi is finally dead, Sasuke seems more keen on killing Naruto than he used to, why?

Sasuke falls into this deep depression and becomes a very self-destructive individual. After killing Itachi, Sasuke adopts this "I must destroy my remaining bond to be truly alone" mindset and that one remaining bond is Naruto (who sees through Sasuke's act).

Both of them swear to have a final battle to settle things. Naruto's goal is to save Sasuke no matter what, they both could either live or die but he has no intention of killing Sasuke nor live without him. On the other hand, Sasuke wants to either kill Naruto or be killed by Naruto if he's defeated.

Sasuke admits the only person who knows his heart and can reach it is Naruto and it's especially because of that, that he needs to cut him out of his life to achieve his goal of self-destruction of being the most hated person in the shinobi world in whom everyone can lash out their hatred.

But in their final battle Sasuke remains unable to kill Naruto, what's revealed to us the readers is that in order to kill Naruto, first Naruto needs to give up on Sasuke so that Sasuke can feel like he's truly alone for good and there's no one else left for him so he can ultimately deliver the final blow. Sasuke grows frustrated seeing Naruto has no intention of giving up on him.

Naruto's story is gothic romance, it's unhinged, intense, dark and extremely dramatic. Sasuke can't bear to be loved by Naruto because in a way he doesn't feel deserving of love after all the abuse he was put through mostly by Itachi and then Orochimaru and Obito, making him believe he must live in perpetual isolation and solitude. Sasuke is also baffled Naruto doesn't believe the same.

Naruto age 7: I can see that the hatred in Sasuke's eyes is not directed towards me.

Naruto age 12: Can't you see that Haku loved you? He loved you so much and now he's dead! Don't you feel anything at all?!

Naruto age 15: Sakura, stop that. You honestly think you can deceive me with your fake confession? I hate people who lie to themselves. I can tell what's a real confession and what is not.

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Of course Kishimoto can write a heterosexual relationship; he doesn't even have to be specific about it. He gives you a few moments and you'll immediately know there was a relationship

It happens with Konan and Yahiko, teammates who fight together and kiss on a rainy night; Temari and Shikamaru don't have many moments together, but through their interactions you know their relationship was going to be nearby

Tsunade and Dan, kurenai and Asuma And so we could go on; it's not necessary to have so many moments to let you know that a man and a woman love each other. for Kishimoto, Minato and Kushina was a more advanced demonstration Especially knowing that later naruto, their son, will want to know about the love story they had

He even has more manga about heterosexual love; Kishimoto clearly can, it's just that Naruhina and Sasusaku aren't to his liking, Because he hates Sakura and Hinata, he dislikes them, and it was always fun for him to make them fail to get close to the men they loved while Naruto and Sasuke more got closer

Kishimoto, I think, is already tired of making it clear that Sakura will never be able to understand Sasuke, and that this superficial affection and obsession makes him uncomfortable

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Kishimoto can't not approve retsuden because he doesn't hold the full rights of Naruto, Shueisha editorial holds them too partially and they don't need to ask Kishimoto if they can or not release supplementary material like all of the novels.

It's like GRRM case, he's the creator of the saga A Song of Ice and Fire and other books of that universe, but at the same time when a new show of the Game of Thrones franchise comes out HBO doesn't really have to ask for approval of whatever they're depicting there, in fact, GRRM has been very outspoken he left the OG Game of Thrones show after season four (out of eight) due to creative differences with the showrunners and as well as butting heads with the showrunner of House of the Dragon going as far as to claim "this is no longer my story". Those shows still exist regardless because HBO doesn't require GRRM approval to greenlit new seasons.

Same thing here, Kishimoto has minimum involvement in the novels, only drawing the cover of the stories (in retsuden's case it was designed by someone else and then they just had Kishimoto draw that same design) but he doesn't draw or write the stories. However, you will still see his name in those filler novels because again, he's the creator of the universe and characters and he gets royalties out of them (like a glorified fanfiction where you have to pay the og author bc you intend to profit off their characters)

Also important to keep in mind Retsuden contradicts what Kishimoto wrote in his own story Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring. So ofc he's not involved in those things

Also this:

@badgalsasuke talked about this, there is no proof that sketch is even that old. And even if NH was "planned" how is that a good argument for it when Kishi did nothing to develop it and even intentionally made it look bad? (see my NH posts)

what do u think about this?

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LMAO I know that girl from another tweet!!! she was trying to pass Sasuke telling Naruto how his devotion for him and never giving up on him "was like a prayer" as something he told to Sakura?????? and was related to the forehead poke????

I had to respond to her and call her out (I don't believe she's in a PhD program at all, she's very stupid)

But also, if you're in the Taylor Swift fandom then you know one thing for sure; tayvises (people who ship Taylor and her current fiancee Travis Kelce) are the stupidest bunch of the fandom. Like they're genuinely the dumbest people in the fandom, this isn't something only I think, it's the general perspective on them. Idk why is it, but I suspect it's because they have strong "Traditional Family Values" beliefs and really like the strong male and his dainty wife, like tayvises believe Travis Kelce "saved" Taylor and once they marry she's gonna retire and have a bunch of kids and become a stay at home wife, that's *their* dream and they salivate over that happening to Taylor even though she's stated multiple times she doesn't want kids. But that's also why this sasusaku shipper in particular likes that ship, she wishes that was Sasuke and Sakura's dynamic.

But anyway, let's talk about the tweet you sent me

now, this girl is doing something very interesting and NEFARIOUS. First, she twists facts, she edited the original collage a SNS shipper made pointing out the similarities between the doujinshi and both the anime and MANGA, deleting the manga panels and only keeping the anime scenes to make it seem like Studio Pierrot added them

OG collage (left) edited collage (right)

So she acts like it was studio pierrot who added unnecessary scenes they took and thus "changed Kishimoto's vision". This tactic she uses of twisting reality and facts to then act offended over that. What's funny about her argument is that Kishimoto had no power over the anime but in her collage she includes Sasuke retsuden he had no power over either LMFAOOOO but that's apparently "his vision"

Anyway, that narusasu doujinshi is very much like Kishimoto's work so he either read it and liked it so much he copied or the narusasu shipper that made it was able to predict the final battle, that's the real gag here

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if we stop thinking that Sasuke is a fictional character

It is very likely that it was fault, the fault because Sakura " suffers because of him" and yet she is still there even though he hurt her in his era of revenge

Just like with Naruto, they don't love these women, they simply feel guilty because these women love them and suffer for them, so they accept them

Sasuke isn't the same as Naruto, yes, but at the moment Sakura followed him, Sasuke was emotionally vulnerable. If you think about it, he was just realizing that he no longer wanted that path of darkness, He felt confused and relieved to have Naruto there, who provided him with emotional support, and at the same time Kakashi and Naruto did their best to keep him out of prison

For some reason after giving Sakura what she wanted, a part of himself, Sasuke simply no longer sees her and doesn't need her and abandons her for 12 years distancing themselves from any romantic connection But they are connected by a daughter

If we return to the reality that it's a fictional character from a large work, Boruto was made for money, while naruhina became so simple after a few years that the studio demanded a sequel to the work from Kishimoto

That's how Sarada was also created; seeing that Boruto and Sarada are just like their parents, Boruto started as a work similar to Naruto to attract people

and they always send this picture, but is it only an order how to read manga+ novels?

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The first thing is just a guide to reading the novels alongside the manga so that they help you understand where the characters are in the story

On the other hand, no, sasuke retsuden is not canon; it's an official novel but not canon

All the novels, in fact, are official, not canon within the naruto universe much less those that contradict the world and story that Kishimoto wrote for his manga

That's why Retsuden is so OC; all the characters, including Sasuke and Sakura, don't follow Kishimoto's world or characters, that's why the work is written by Jun Esaka

Why does your love hurt so much? Don't know why…

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I'll need help with this, and I can take anyone's opinion because I've only seen The Last once and I've seen few interviews with Kishimoto about it

The fact that the scarf was his idea is...because in this interview it is clarified that it wasn't his idea, it was someone else's; he simply responded to someone else's question about ""Do women still knit scarves?" Kishimoto recalled that his wife, as a woman, did it It wasn't his romantic idea for the movie, it wasn't even an idea, it was someone else's, The part where it says "and the room fell completely silent" is so awkward, like they're looking at each other and saying, "Okay, let's put the scarf in as an idea"

The second image shows Kishimoto talking about not being interested in romantic love (okay, don't talk to him about Shinjū), much less in Hinata/Naruto's love, I just wanted Naruto to have a child (which could be with anyone) who was just like him

this wasn't for me btw it's for a girl on X who said that the Last can't be canon because it wasn't written by Kishimoto, something I agree with,, The entire film was made by Tsuneo Kobayashi; Kishimoto only approved the film's production and then simply created the designs

Saying that he approved of such a film does not mean that he even agrees with it being made or is involved in it, with this argument we can say that Sasuke Retsuden is canon despite having plot holes, contradictions from the manga, and being made by another person

The same thing happens with the Last; it has so many contradictions to Kishimoto's efforts in the manga as if it were a standalone film and not based on a finished manga, Putting Kishimoto in the credits doesn't mean anything; he's the creator of all the characters, nobody has the right to steal them. I saw this same argument with the ss and Sakura stans, nothing has been proven yet

Wasn't Naruto finished when The Last started? Obviously, he was going to promote what he already had in hand,I still don't understand how promoting it proves that he made The Last or that he agrees with it. he is the creator of the characters , and the Last had tons of promotion(you can see their promotions online) It's also a movie that stupid heterosexuals who don't care about manga like, and it became famous. Everyone wanted to know his opinions and what he had to say

and in reality, this is the way he talks about the film, why does he have to explain so much that he sees them as if he were watching his children kissing and use "はずかしい" where the translation is to describe something as embarrassing? You're talking about something incestuous, why do you want me to be embarrassed? because when Naruto and Sasuke kissed, he never spoke this way

In the same way that he talks about the Naruhina kiss as embarrassing and also always attributes the romance only to Hinata